659: Truth Trapper Keepers

About this episode

The episode discusses a self-hosted app that transformed Chris's family time management and explores a hardware hack.

The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all. Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release OneCal PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device…

People in this episode

Host: Chris

Topics covered

• self-hosted apps
• hardware hacks
• VPN
• calendar syncing
• Raspberry Pi
• open-source software

Keywords

• self-hosted app
• hardware hack
• VPN
• calendar syncing
• Raspberry Pi
• open-source

Sponsors

Jupiter Party Annual Membership, Managed Nebula

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: KubeSail, NixOS, raspberrypi, cage-kiosk

Products: Managed Nebula, Keeper.sh, PiBox

Places: Bellingham, Washington

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